Albania

Albania is a country in the Balkans region of Europe, located to the north of Greece, to west of Macedonia, and south of Serbia and Montenegro. Albania, like nearby Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are the only three nations in Europe to have a Muslim majority, with the Turks introducing Islam to the Albanian people. Albania declaed independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1912 and became a kingdom in 1928 after republican and principality phases, but Albania was occupied by Italy in 1939. Enver Hoxha led the communist struggle for liberation during World War II, and Albania was an isolationist communist state until 1991. The Socialist Party of Albania would continue the country's socialist legacy in a social democratic fashion, and it competed with the Democratic Party of Albania in elections. In 2016, Albania had a population of 2,886,026 people, with 58% being Muslim, 17.2% Catholic, 14% agnostic, 2.5% atheist, and 5.5% others.